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The Herald. KA rLULisj.r:? .. ::.:v r ,. i;hhv, r r PLATTSLIOUi:!, HBRASXa. OPi 7C15: O. V:rt. r.t , ,.. U-'.-t '. of Mtaln. Largest fodiEa cf Ppr in to CrxY AIVI3UTI8I0 It A T K H . stack 1 oqr .. 2 ei)rs 3 sirs. 4 col. H col.. 1 col... 1 w. I 2 w. 3 w. I 1 II). J 2 60 8 21 4 75 12 C3 IS 00 2000 8 in. I 6 m.l 1 jr. .'$1 00 $1 M'ti 00 $.100 0 50 8 00 20 00 $3 00 1000 13 00 2tOO $12 M 20 o 33 OO CO 00 100 Oi 1 60 2 00 6 00 a oo 15 00 2 00' 2 75 2 75 8 00 1200 18 00 400 1000 IS 00 20 00 2o OOi 40 00 40 OO CO 00 tSf All Advertising Bills Duo Quarterly. tin Transient AdrertlsmeaU must tie Tti InAdvanco. JNO. A. MACMURPHY, Editor. "PERSEVERANCE CONQUERS." TERMS: $2.00 a Year. Trrr.-i in A iv trice? One copv. ..iir 'i.'X Oiieciv ,v m i.t0 One copy. in-, c i..-)n .M) VOIJTMK XVII. V PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1881. NUMBER 0. tlTExtra Copies of the Herald for sale by J. P. Youxo, at the Fost-OHlee Kewi Depcl Mala Street. We invito tlie attention oftbe IPuMle to our ILarge and 'Attractive Stock of (fan ft 11 lb i I 3 na&j The Herald. HEBA J). Youths' Bow s' Men s, r nil in fph fi - ' r whieli . OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. .Stale Directory. A. S. PADDOfK. IT. H. Senator, Beatrice. ALVIN H.U'.NDKUS, U. S. Senator, Omaha. K, K. VALEN i INK, Kf preseutat'e. West 1'oint. ALBIM'S N ANOK. (;ovemor, Lincoln. S. J. AI.KX.W DEK. Secretary of State. JOHN WAl.i.u'llN. Auditor, Lincoln. . M. nAUri.KrT. Treasurer, Uncolu. W. W. JON 1 Sunt. Public Instruction. A. it. KK.Vl' . i.L. Land Coininii-sioiier. C.I. 11Lo: ill. Attorney Central. KHV. C. ('. It ::itis. Chaiilain of IVniteni,.ii y . l)K. II. P. M . il llKWSON, Supt. Hospital tor the In.s.i'. -. - V. jtreme Court. S. MAXWKt.L. flilef Justice. Fremont. (!K. B. I.Aht;, Omaha. AM ASA COiU:. Lincoln. o Heritml Juiticinl Ttittriel. S. B. I'OUXli. .iMde. Lincoln. J. I . WA rs . lToseciit'.nit-Att y, .f. i ity. W. C SHOW., l,l kk, t Jel'K lili'lci conn. . l'lattsii!.u.li. ':unty Directory. A. N. RVLLIV AX, County Judge. J. 1). TUTT. t i.i.iiiy Clerk. J. M. I'ATl'KCSO'X. County Treasurer. K. W. HVK1!. slieriff. K. H. WOOl.l'V, Co. Sup't Iul). lustiuctiou. . i. FAIU I!-;LI. Surveyor. I. 1. tiASS. i.ioiicr. "OU'TV COMMISSIONER. SAM'L KIC1I AUDSOX. Mt. I'leaj-ant I'leciiict ISAAC WILK. Plattsuioutli Prccinet. JAMKS CKAWroKl). South HenU Precinct. I'arttes havluj; business with the County j ConiniUciontrs. will find tliein in session the First Monday and Tuesday of each month. 43tf City Directory. J. V. JOHNSON'. Mavor. J. M. I-ATTEKSON, Treasurer. J. 1. SIMPSON, t ity Clerk. KICHAKI) VIVIAN. Foltee Judfre. W. I). JONES, Chief of Police. F. E. WHITE. Chief of Eire Oept, COL'Xrll.M F.N. lnt Ward F. (JOKDKK. C. H. PA KM K I.E. 2d Ward ti W. FAIKFIELU. J. V. WECK- l. BACH. 3d Ward-I). JIILI.EU.THOS. roLI. K. 4th Ward P. McCALLAN. C. S. DAWSON. i'oetmoxter-JyiO. W. MAKSHALL. PROFESSIONAL. CARDS IHt. II. MKAIIK, PHYSICI X and SI'TICEON, otnee in Fitz gerald Klock, which will be open day or nKh- K. J. I. JIfCltKA, 1IOMEPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Ofll.-e over X'. V.Matuew's Hardware Store, Flaltmoutli, Ne braska. s"l' K. U. LIVIXtiSTOX. sr. l'UVSICIAN c SfKOKOX. OFFICE HOCKS, from 10 a. in., to 2 p. in. Examining Surgeon for L S. Pension. V. OLl'TTKK. DB1TTIST. llltttMIIIOUtll. Sf ll'XJ.U. Olllce on Main Street over Solomon . Na tlian's Store. iLl. lVHIi VI!K. COLL ECTJOA'-S H r'&'CJM L Tt . ATTOKNEY AT LAW. Keal Estate. Fire In uninee and Collection Agency, tlillct in Fitz gerald's block. Plattsniouth. NebrasKa. ?ma ;f.o. ft. him ii. ATTOKNEY AT LAW and Keal Estate liro ker. Social attention ictveu to Collections nnd all matters affecting the titie to real estate. Ollice on ad lloor over Post oilice. Plattsmouih. Nebraska. 4Q l. " U. II. WIIKKLKK A Vtt. LAW OFFICE, Keal 1 Mate. Fire and Life In surance Aleuts, Plattsniouth, Nebraska. Col lectors, lax -pay erx. nave a complete. auMiati of titles. Buy and sell real estate, negotiate loans, &.c. ' ' ' HA:'!, 91. CHAPMAS, . ATTORNEY AT LAW, And Solicitor In Chancery. Oilice in Fitzger ald Block, J9yl PLATTSMOL'TH. N Lb. li, B. W i son AM. J. A. Cami-wkll. Attorney at Law. Notaiy Public. Vi:IMIAM A AIII'XII.LI.. COLLECTION AND KEAL ESTATE AtlENTs Oflice over W. II. Baker & t'o's Store. Platumouth, Nebraska. aoly JAMKS E. MOKRISOS, W. I-. 11KOWNE. Notary Public. lIOUItl!SOX A. ItltOIV.Vf.. ATTO It X E YS AT LAW. Will practice tu Cass and Hdjoining Counties ; gives specia: at trillion to c41fclions and ahstracis of utie. tillice. in FiUendd Block, Platls'liiout h. Nebraska. m PLATTSMOUTH MILLS. PLATTSMOUTH. NEB. v. iii:isi:i. ii i i-tor. Fiortir, Coin Meal & lni Always n hand and for sale at lowest cash Inices. The highest prices paid for Wheat ai.d 'orn. Particular attention j;iven custom work. aKKXTH AM AXV.iKKS Make from ,. per wi ck selling L'ooilsfor K. U. KIDEOl T & CO-.-lo llaiviay Slieet, Ni w Yolk. Send for ealalogne and terms. 22ly JLS& S -Ajs js . J. F. B A U A E i S T H j Furr.isiie Frili. Pine Milk, ii:i.ivi::i.i( ikiii.v. Special eall attended to. and Fre-h Milk from same cow fumi-hed when wanted. 41y 3IACIIINe' SHOTS ! P1.ATT8MOUTII. S Kit.. Repairer of Steam Engines, liuiUrs, Saw and Grist Milk UAKAM) HTILUI FITTItiH, brought Iron Pipe. Force and Lift Pipes Steam Gauge. Safety-Valve tiovernrs. and all kluJs of brass Engine Fittings, reir.'.h ed on sliort notiwe. FARM MACHINE- H. A. WATERMAN & SON - Wholesale and Retail Dealers in TINE LUilBER. LATH. SIIINOLES. SASU, ' DOORS, BLINDS, ETC.. ETC., ETC. Ma. street. Comer of Fifth. PLATTSMOUTH. - - - - NEB Still Better Rates for Lumber we have jut-received for the steals and Cottons, asasi caia offer CRreater Inducements in tiaan ever hefore. .An examination will well repay those -in seareli ofi'JSararains. BHAITfej in Straw. Haw IFelt anel IFine IFelts and Wool. B. & M. R. R. Time Table, Talcing Effect December 5, 1880. FOlt OMAHA fTToM PLATTSMOL'TH. leaves 7 :20 a. m. ' Arrives 8 -.30 a. in. 2 :45 p. in. " 4 :00 p. in. " 7 :00 a. in. " 9 :10 a. in. FKOM OMAHA FOlt PLATTSMOL'TH. Leaves 8 :.r0 a. in. Arrives 10 :O0 a. in. O :.V p. in. ' 7 -JiH . in. " 7 ;W( - 9 K) ' " FOIl THE WEST, leaves Platisniouth s :20 a. m. Arrives Lin coln. 12 :05 p. ii:. ; Arrives Kearney, T- 40 p. in. Leaves l'laUsim.ulli at 7 :25 p. in. arrives at Liucoln at :50 n. in. Freight leaves at 8 :"0 a.m. and at 8 :10 p. in. Arrive at Lincoln at 4 : 55p. in. and 2 :00 a. in. FKOM THE WEST. leaves Keaniey. a :3( i. in. leaves Lincoln, I .on p. in. Arrives PlattMiiouth. 3 :M P. in 1-aves I. inc. .In at 5 :4 a. in., arrives at Pluttsuioui Ii 8 a. in. Freight leaves Lincoln at 12 :05 p. ni. and 0 :40 p. in. Airivt-s at i'intisiiinatli at ft ;3.1 p. in. and I I :Sp. in. OOIN! EAST. Panse'ier trains leave Plattsmouih at 7 00 a. in.. 8 5 a. m.. 3 40 p m. and arrive at Pacific Junction at 7 an a. in., 8 3 a. nt, and 4 10 p. in. FKOM THE EAST. Paseenjjer trains leave Pacific .1 miction at 8 30 a. in.. G 4. p. in., 1000 a. m. and arrive at Platts inouth at 9 00 a. in.. 7 15 p. m. and 10 30 a. in. , U. V. 11. 11. Time Table. Taking Effu t Sunday, December 5. 18K0. WEST. STATIONS. EAST. 5:i:pni UASTINOS. 12:10am 6:15 AY It. H:5 7 :2" BLUE HILU 1-'H) 8:20 COWLES. 9 :J0 8:65 AM BOY 8:25 9 :4 BED CL'-l'D. 8 :00 10 :I5 I N A VA LE. e :a5 10:55 KIVEKTOX. 6:10 U :4) FRANKLIN. 5 :10 12:10pm ! BLOOMINOTON. 4:45 U JXi j N A PON EE 1:10 1:20 KEPI'ULICAN .1 :4! 1 :tO ALMA 2A5 V. OKLEANS '-''fr 2.VI i 1 :4a 3 I OXFOKD 12:o0am 5:00 I AKAPAliOE 11:4a AUKIVAIj AM lllil'AKTrUE OF PL. TTJJIOl'XII .U AILN. ARRIVES. . 7.30 p. 111. I 9.:i a. in. f 8.oo a. m. ( 3.:to p. in. 11.00 a in 7.30 p. in. I0.3'i a in. i 7.3a p. in. f ll.oo a m. It.iMia in. Nov. 10, 1 m DEPARTS. I 7.00 a. ni. ') 3.oo p. ni. 8..-o a. in. I r.l. p. m. 3.00 p. Ill 7.( 0 a. in t 7.45 a. 111. " 2.00 p. 111. l.oo p. in l.oo p. Ill KASTKKX. WESTERN. SOUTH Ei:S. SOf 1 11 KK.V. OMAHA. V.-KKTMNli WATER. r'ACTUKVVILLK. J. W. Marshall. P. M. MI. 0KIX OAKLING, SOUTH BEND, NEB. DRUGS, PAINTS, OILS, ETC., FLOUR AND GROCERIES in eeneral. Or Darling is alio a Pracli.siiiR Physician and can always be found at his Office In the Urug Store. Special attention paid to OliiSTERICAL CASES. 31mG HAY BROTHERS, DEALER IN HARDWARE. STOVES & TINWARE. , oe tii m:i, m:i:ii isik i. A Oood 'linne.- alwayn nil hand. Repairing done neatly, promptly; and cheaply. Eave-tronchin and liootiiiK alo done to order. IleniPiiil ei tlie inline :md place, Tlay Bros. South He ml, Nebraska. 31m3 O. F. JOHNSON, DEALER IN Drugs? ANU ! WA.L.L. PAPER. i-.'r Ail Paper Trimmed Free of Charge. AI-S DEALEIt IN Stationery, Magazines, AND Latest Publications. IT--j : ption nrrtilly Compounded y nn Experienced Iru;;it KKMEMl'.EK THE PLACE. Cth ST., 2 DOOItS SOUTH OF MAIN PLATTSMOUTH. NEB. UNION STORE! Eight Mile Grove, Neb. BY WALTER JENKINS flavin? opened a New Store at the abor . I call attention to mv uck. and ask the patronage of my friends and the 1 ublic in general. Dry Goods, Groceries Tinware Wooden wart a:id (leueral Goods of all sorts. CHEAP JJSTID GOOD Call and see oar Stock before going elsewhere. 31Iy Walter Jenkins. HKNRY BCFOK DEALEIt IN SAFES, CHAIRS. KTC, ETC., ETC., Of All Descriptions. METALLIC BURIAL CASES "WOODEU COFFHsTS Of all sizes, ready made and sold cheap for cash JI" PINE HEARSE IS XOW EEADY FOR SERVICE. With many thanks for past patronar invite all to call and examine my LARGE STOCK OF 13tf. K UK XT I' IE AXI IH1FFIXN 'AT u U vrS ;.:iNr - --v- ' 'U'!.- 1 "JAi". 'vnAMUH CAB Inc. I AMES PETTEE J DEaLEU IX Musical Instruments, 4 Sole Appointing Agtnt for The riirlvalled Mason & Hamlin CABINET ORGANS. AIho State Apent for the Henry F Miller and AV. C. Emerson Co. Pianos. SAMPLE INSTRUMENTS at office. Sixth, one door south of Main St. PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. 3Iuslc Scholar Will do well to examine our Xew Mason & Hamlin QBG-AH liTSTRUCTOE h jsii c - CD i 2 5s 0 Z3 03 5 CO s - 15 3 OJ S-i C" to " - c CO S 3 I M Ji j 5.5 o o a c3 30 T4 S -n Mi? K G tn S t O q I O 5 -C I 111 ? a s 3 Q. a! MONARCH MILLIARD HALL! In the basement of Merges' Store, PLATTSMOUTH, - - - NEBRASKA. One door east of the P. O. Rooms Newly Fitted up With SKW 3IOXAICCII TABLIX Cigars Temp3rane Drinks On band at the counter. It Is a wide and spacious Hall ; plenty of room for player Mid seats for visitors. En. Oliver. P. IJ. MUUPHY, Manager. Htf Prop. 'i'iltt Ll'orf&t and Medicine ever Hade. Aoo! laiMoation of Hops, Buchu, Man- drakewi Dandelion. withatie bet and most c m nra tive pruiKrtnrs or au other Bitters, mnlfa tho ereauel Blood furlfitr. Llvnp Auut on I earth. No di?ase e .an possibly lontr eilst where nop Hitters ore ua kedio vaxied ana perfect are their operatioiis.1 I!i97 civs t8lif9aalTlort3tkoie8laditara. To all whosa amploTroenU cause irretralari- tyorthelKwelsorX.rinary organs, or who re quire an AppcixeXonic and mild Stimulant, !loplittersareinralv,""cwnnuu iniox icatin; No matter what your teW-lintrs or symptoms are what the discaaeor ailWeat Is use Hop Bit ters. lon't wait until xouam re sick but If you only (eel bad or numerable , "e ttiem at once. It may -xto your lift?. It katE3 area Hundreds. 500wiUbepaidforacal9 ther will not euro or belli Do not suffer ret your friends Buift r.but use and urtre tiiemouaa Hop B Kemcmbcr, flop Bitters is noa. "H drurawt drunken no.truru, but the lrpRtPV. a a d Best Hedicine ever inado ; the "MV1LID6W sKtSJIO and HOfZ" and no person or family anouia ue wituouc mem. n. I.C.N an atnolute and Irresistible nir. lururunitciim '3, useoi opium, ioiucco and! narcotic. Aii st i.i uy tiruirirwts. Send BRICK! BRICK! If you want any Fire or Ornamental Brick, Call on J. T. A. HOOVER, LOUISVILLE, - - NEBRASKA. S!TY1B TTS REMEDY FOB BALDNESS RJ IsTS. Sf"a Fr:npUoii Free tuan liSiperson wn wl;I gIO u, 81. a newgrowinel&alr.Whuksraor Huataciies U ariuaiiy produce.!. kaauuisca 4c Co., 3 Cliatoa 2lxe, Xew ZWk. IPmHW- ITISAISIE IF1 XE. S T National Bank OK PLATTSMOUTH. NEHKASKA. John FtTziF.rtALi ... E. (i. Ijovky A. W. McLaumhlix. . JONH O ltOUKKK . President. Viee President. Ca.shier. ...Assistant Ciushier. This Bank is now open for business at their lew room, corner Mam and Sixth streets, and is prepared to transact a ueneral BANKING BUSINESS. Stocks, Bonds. Gold, Government and Local Securitie HOVUHTAXD SOLI). Uejtosits Received and Interest Allow ed on Time Ccrtilcates. DRAFTS JDIRAWZNn, available in any part ot the United States and in all the Principal Towns and Cities of Europe. AGCXTS FOU TIIK CELEBRATED km an Line and Allan Line OF NT KA 31 V. ItS. Person wishing to bring out their friends from Europe can PUKCflASK TICKETS FHOJI ITS Throaeli to Plattumout h. WEEPING WATER BANK OF IIHOS. This Bank is now open for the transaction of a GElsTEBAL Banking Exchange Business. DEPOSITS Received, and Interest allowed on Time Certi ficates. I HAFTS Drawn, and available in the principal twns and cities of the United States and Europe. Agents for the celebrated Wmi Ling of Steamers. Purchase your tickets from us, Through from Europe to any . Point in the West. REED BUOS., 21.f Weeping Water. Neb. E. SAGF. Successor to Sack Bhothkic. Dealer in S TO "VIES, . TINWARE, SHEET IRON. ZIN :o: At the old Stand opposite the new IK, v. PUMPS, GAS-FITTING. Al-Sl. Making. & Reuairintf Done. ?5 A G. HATT JUST OPENED AOAIN. New, Clean, First Class Meat Shop, onMain Street Corner or Bill, Plattsniouth Everybody on hand for fresh, tender meat. . 2etl.C6 ROBERT DONNELLY'S AVD li LACK MIT 1 1 SHOP. Wagon, Buggy, Machine and Plow re pairing, and general jobbing I a:n now prepared to do all kinds of repairing of farm and other machinery, sis there is a good lathe in my shop. PETER RAUEN, The old Reliable Waon Maker has taken chance ot the wagon shop. He la well known as a NO. 1 WORKMAN. w Masons and Ilussir made to Order. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Shop on Sixth street epposite StreiRht's Stable We have TEXT DOOE TO CA.:r:R,TXX K'S. Nov York and Hie Toliticiaiis. There has been a tremendous con test in the city of Xew York, winch is very signilicant and interesting. As we write the conflict is at its thickest and dirtiest ; for it is the .struggle of the citizens to escape the dust, mud and liitii, breeding discom fort and disease, which professional politicians insi3t upon cherishing for the benefit of their own pockets. The mass-meetings of the "citizens, even uttou this uns:tvorv subject, have been full of eloauence and enthusiasm, Thev have recalled the irreat meetings to break ui the Tweed Hing, and it. i is easy to detect in them the old spirit : of the Revolutionary Sons of Liberty. ! Dise.isi is rife. Small-pox, scarlet lever, diphtheria, and typhus have been almost epidemic. The death rate has increased, and the physicians have spread the alarm. Meanwhile the streets have been piled and ob jstiucted with tilth and reeking with foulness, until a general instinctive consciousness that the whole c ty ma : chinery for cleanliness, consisting of a gang of the smallest kind of politi j cians, was absolutely useless, pro 'duceda protest and uprising, which j nave been refreshing to those who ! sometimes half despair of the sur vival of any public spirit whatever. There has been the liveliest truth telling at the meetings, in which party lines have been absolutely ig nored, and the city politician has been faithfully and brilliantly portrayed. The city politician is it smart, inso lent, vulgar, venal trader in place and politics,, w ho counts upon the good- natured indifference of the public, upon party spirit, and on his own effrontery. His purpose is to get as much of the public money as he can, and to use party, bo;li that which is nominally his own and the opposi tion, to enable hini to do it. lie has an absolute contempt for mankind, and an amused incredulity of all gen eruus motives and public spirit. He is "on the make" himself, and he thinks everybody a fool who is not,. The word ''reform" he linds conven ient for any peculiarly daring stroke of unscrupulous knavery. But if he meets a man who is appaia-n.iy sin cere, and earnest to throw light, into darkness, to straighten crooked ways and to abolish abuses, his contempt becomes rage, and he can only splutter what the ooys call liifalutin rhetoric. This precious character having re ceived an ollice, uses it first to help himself, then to help his party, unless he can make more by "selling, it out." The old Tweed era was "a deal" of "a pool,"between politicians of opposite parties. Tweed's "pals" in the other party ran straight party tickets when Tweed could be better helped in that way; and there were the noblest appeals to stand by the grand old party, and to maintain the time-honored principles, and to keep the proud Hag of no surrender tiy in - under which, in the back room, tin "swag" was pleasantly divided. It i this kind of politician which has im posed pestilential streets upon the city, which has struck hands with filth and malaria, and which sneers at hon est citizens, in-Tweed's old phrase, to know what they mean to do about it. Unless all spirit, and honor, and stlf respect have departed from the citi zens, they will do something very ef fectual about it. The present ring masters are a pale and puny set com pared with Tweed's, but the citizens of Xew York tried conclusions with him wilh some success, and if the de sire of relief in the city is now baftled, we expect to see the issue nnV.e at the polls next autumn as distinctly as it was with Tweed, and the t lading pol iticians politically buried in the mire in which they have kept the. city. Editor's EaV Chair, in Harper's Magazine for June. The Shearing Festival. The sixth annual sheep shearing festival was in progress last week as we went to press, and as we were un able to give any extended account at that time it was our-intention to give a full synopsis this week. L?ut a press of news prevents, and hence a brief outline only can be given. A large number of persons from abroad were prtsent. Some line stock was exhibited, in fact all were line grade animals, and the. number of contest ants for prizes were numerous. The shearings, with weights as found by the committee were entirely satisfac tory, and withal flattering. The din ner at the Opera House wa the best ever set out by the Beatrice ladies and iiill justice was done it. Ex-Governor Furnas delivered a masterly ad dress and w.is followed by Peter Jan sen, Esq., in an able paper on sheep raising. The ball in the evening was a magnificent ending to the festal day and closed an epoch in Beatrice festiv ities. Beatrice Courier. Meeting of the Fish Commissioners. The State Fish Commisioners, Gen. li. li. Livingston and W. L. May met at the Commercial hotel Saturday af ternoon, the third member of the board Hon. U.S. Kaley being absent on ac count of sickness. Nine bids for the location of the State fisheries were opened but none of them were deemed worthy of ac ceptance therefore they were all reject ed. The board will meet again in Omaha next week. Globe. Boston ij talking of taking up the world's fair scheme. Boston is too too utterly utter. A next world's fair might be successful in Boston, but a this world's never! O. Rep. all the latest styles In Dassl2iaercs5 UVor- (?0 p 0 The liisr Morning Star. A suggestive, if humble, contribu tion to current literature is furnished by the Eadle Ktatali Toh (I5ig Morn ing Star), in a few extracts from letters recently written by the pupils of the Carlisle school to their Indian relatives, who will perhaps get at t lie meaning of them through the agency interpreters. One lad expresses his contentment in this fashion: "White mail is very good, and Da kota wav is not good, I gtifss. 1 am not timid, I wish I will : good boy. and when I grow up tti a am all done I want you would wonder. A dutiful nephew has no intention of losing his hold on his Indian uncle, whom he thus reminds of his exist ence: "I)E.n Uncle: I think you do not remember me, but I am one of our relations. Hi.rBKX, son of Quick liear." The son f the Cheyenne chief Dig Horse win probably give the stout war rior mingled pride and pain bv this epistle. "I study in the book to push hard, and 1 don t like the Indian way. I am one to push and learn white ffcople's way. I am a farmer. Darlington, son of a Sioux, seems to have already learned what is the chief aim of a white man, for he writes in this strain : "I want to know the white man's way and when I know the white man's way, I think I will not be poor." All the little pupils seem to be im pressed with the "good eat" they en joy, but a little Cheyenne maiden of 10 summers adds these points which show that sex is no affair of color alone: "The Carlisle is very nice, and my shoe very nice, and my dress very nice, and mv hat very nice, and very good eat." An Arapahoe youngster has got be yond the point of food and clothing, and writes to a friend or relative at one of the ''western agencies as fol lows: "We have good warm houses here. We. have boiler here and pipes run through the rooms and have steam in them, and it heats all the rooms. 1 think your school ought to have a boiler.' Wolf Quiver will probably have some strange thoughts in his Indian brain when he gets this appeal from his own son IVatone: "Say, father you must trying to fol low the white man's road. You must not be lazy, you try the white man's road as soon as you can. ' You must not be mad, no bad. You be a good man every day." Minnie, also, adopts a tone vice toward stalwart Yellow the Arapahoe chief: "You must try hard to do of ad Bear, right. You must try hard to learn about j i ;l, ways dtt tli:it W:iy. When I went to bed 1 always thinking about my home. I never get . cross at any body." In a like strain Davis, writing to Bull Bear, the Cheyenne, says: "I will do what ou say to me, every time;" 'and then he makes this plea in return: 'Just you go ahead, don't get tired any more." A Ponca youth of maturer years announces his ambition in this fashion: "I like to learn something. I tell vou I make good tin, and I like to learn white man's talk." Here is a letter, brief, but iointed: "Mr. Porcupine Sitting on Wood: Don't forget always before. From your true son, Joe Taylor." One letter, addressed on the outside "Mr. Heai Horses." is affectionately signed: "From your loving daughter. Cheyenne Minerva Heap Horses;" and another emphatic signature is in this form:" Wooden Earring Itebecca Perit, me." A letter of advice, which is di rected by one lad to his mother on Porcupine Tail Creek, might do almost as well for the people of Xew York city in these days, for it runs as fol lows: "Keep one place all the time; don't move anywhere always; sometime you move one other place and you stop there one year or half a year and you move again to another one place." Considering that some of these little letter writers knew no English eight een months ago, their correspondence is certainly creditable, and promising. A long discussion took place in the Republican caucus at Washington on the 10th, the result of which is as fol lows: In all of the diseusssion very kind feeling was manifested towards Conk ling by Senators who maintained that Boberlson ought to be confirmed, and declared their intention that it was necessary to antagonize Conkling. who wa.s part of the time absent from the caucus and in his committee room. A general disposition wa.s manifested to avoid putting any humiliation upon Conkling in confirming Roterts;n. Several Senators who supported Rob ertson, expressed the opinion that Conkling had been unjustly abused in the newspapers; that he had some cause to complain, and that though it as proper to confirm Robertson and sustain the President, liepub'ic.t.is should in their. speeches and acts show that they esteem and appreciate Conk ling, and this feeling prevailed to such an extent that a vote on Bum side's resolution w is postponed without much opposi tion, though a majority had declared for it. The eaucu.s adjourned without de claring anything by actual vote, but it was developed that a majority wiil sustain the administration. "3 r z ii i M V diaVElij All Around Us. Our Western exchanges complain that it is too dry. Come along and take a little of our rain. We can spate a little just as well as not. 1). T. Sherman, formerly of Seward and Aurora, has removed his printing ollice from Harvard to Sterling, John son county, Xeb., and will publish a paper there hereafter. In Juuiatla an amateur dramatic company are playing the "Last Loaf." We have a distinct recollection of say ing to some one, "y-you m-arry m-me and I'll g-g-give y-y-you a p-p-pig," ourselves in the years gone by. Central City is the best side walked town of its siz.L in thg State. In five ears, if our citizens continue their present public spirited course in the matter ol tree planting, its streets will be the bett shaded and most beautiful. Let the good work go on. The Item was this week taken into school as a reader and speller, to alter nate.with the regular text books. It being the belief of the teachers that current literature and current news should form a part of the education of youth. Central City Item. A family of Sherman county honn stea lers. composed of two men and a woman and child passed thro' here Thursday on foot, hauling their little all in a hand-'-art. Their story was that their house and all effects had been burnt to the ground. They said they were on their way to friends living in Xebraska City. Fair mont Dulletin. Mrs. . I. Stroh m, of Xew Era pre cinct, planted over two thousand live hundred fruit and forest trees on her claim in (josper- county on Arbor Day and Ihe day before, with her own hands, notwithstanding the fact of her being a rather delicate lady and as a general thing not enjoying good health, (losper county may well feel proud of Mrs. Strohm a3 a citizen. Arapahoe Pioneer. Jaaies '.lakes an After-dinner Speech. Special lipateh to the Clobe-Demoerat. Xew York. May 10. At the annual dinner of the Chamber of Commerce to-night Post-master General James said; 1 am directed by the President of the LniiedJStates to say that it was his intention to be present this even ing, but owing to the severe, though I am glad to say not seriojs, illness of Mrs. Gaitield.'he linds himself unable to attend, and he requests me to present his regrets. Speaking of the investigations now in progress in the Post Office Department by direction of the President, 'et me say that they are aiuied at a system and not at men, but if this inquiry should disclose that any persons have been guilty of cor ruption and fraud, they will be handed over to the Department of Justice, presided over by the intrepid, able, and energetic Attorney General, Wayne MacVeagh. The county may be assured that nj mail service necessary to the welfare of any community shall be abolished or curtailed, while all unnecessary and wasteful expenditure shall be relent lessly eut off. In other words, it is proposed that the postal service shall be conducted and distributed with strict regard to actual public require ments, and not with a view to serving private interests. I will only add in further reference to this subject that it is the intention of the President, as embodied in his explicit instructions to myself and the honorable Attorney General, to pursue this investigation until there are no more facts connected with it to be ascertained. Again thanking you for your kind attention, in conclusion let me beg to assure you that no effort shall be spar ed to administer the affairs of the Post Office Department faithfully, effi ciently and economically ; that an earn est endeavor will be made to meet the increasing demands of our coun try; that the business and social re quirements ol this "great city, as well as th.ise of other cities, so far as postal faci ities are concerned, shall not be overlooked or ignored, and that no la bor shall be neglected to give the na tion a service of which it need not be ashamed. Applause. Strikes. National Associated Prees. Chicaoo, May 12 1 a. in. It was stated yesterday morning that the switchmen's strike was practically at an end, and that the objects for which it was started have not been wholly accomplished, though in some few cases the roads have advanced the pay of the men and promised to improve their condition in other ways. It is estimated that a third of the strikers have resumed work, while, the balance will retrain oui and make a farther effort to carry their point. The freight blockade i.- enormous and business men are becoming very impatient. One car load ! potatoes and several of butter and eggs on the track, most of which wiil be a total loss. There has also been a Heavy loss on live poultry shipped in from ti.e country about the timii the trouble broke out, much of which still remains in the cars. ANOTHER STRIKE. Cincinnati, O., May 12 -1 a. m. The) section men on the Indianapolis division of the Coljimbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis railroad struck for an advance of 25 cents a day. They have been getting $1.13. 'Strip a Senator of his patronage," sas the Inter-Ocean, "and what is her"" Why an ex-senator, of course. O. Rep. One View of it. It is generally conceded that Senator Conkling made a splendid impression before the Republican caucus yester day. He was tible to say in the pres ence of his brother Senators that he had never asked a favor of Mr. Gar field, and that he defied any man in the country to find the application of a single ofiice-seeker which boro his en dorsement. He was able to say still more, that he had not asked for the appointment of a single ' officer, clerk or laborer in the Xew York Custom House for twenty years, and more even than this, he is able to prove it. The truth of the matter is, Roscoe Cor.kling lias been and is to-day the cleanest politician in Washington. His aims are beyond party patronage. He does not find time to think of it. lie would not dabble in it if he were invited to do so. He is a great man, and being a great man he is misrepresented and maligned by every little blackguard scribbler in the land. These journal istic pups do not know a really great man when they see him, and it is un necessary to say that really great men do not know them. X'ews. The quartermaster at Yankton has issued 37,400 rations to sufferers by the flood. Captain Clagne, who was sent by General Terry on a tour of in vestigation, reports that the ofiicers at Fort Randall saved seven hundred persons from possible starvation. O. Rep. Church Keno. Peck's Sun While the most of our traveling men, our commercial tourists are nice Christian gentlemen, there is occasion ally one that is as full of the old Nick as an egg at this time of tin; year is full of malaria, Thens wa.s ono of them stopped at a country town a few. nights ngo where there was a church fair. Ho is a blonde, good-natured looking, serious chap, and having stopped at that town every month for a dozen 3 ears, every body knows him. He always chips in toward a collection, a wake or a rooster light, and the town swears by him. lie attended the fair, and a jolly little sifter of the church, a married lady, took him by tLo hand and led Liiu through the green fields, where the girls sold him ten cent chaiic.es in sawdust dolls, and beside still waters, where a girl sold him sweetened water wilh a sour stomach, for lemonade, from Rebecca's well. The sister linrilljr tood beside him while the deacon was reading off num bers. They were drawing a quilt, ami as the numbers were drawn nil were anxious to know who drew it. ' Fjnally, after several numbers were drawn, it was announced by tho deacon that number fifteen drew tho quilt, and tho little sister turned to the traveller and said, "My! that is my number. I have drawn it. What shall I do?" "Hold up your ticket -and shout keno," ho said. Tho little deaconess did not stop to think there might bo guilo lurking in tho traveling man, but being full of joy at drawing the quilt, and ice-cream because the traveling man bought it, she rushed into tho crowd toward tho deacon, holding her number, and '.onto 1 so thev could hear it all over tho house, "keno!" If a bank had burst in the building there couldn't have been so much astonishment. Thcjlca- con turned pale and looked at Lis poor little sister as though sho had. fallen from grace, and all tho church people looked sadly at her, whilo the worldly minded people snickered. Tho little woman saw that sho had got her foot into something, and asked the traveling man what Jceuo meant. He said he didn't know exactly, but ho had alwaj-s seen people, when they won anything at that game, yell "keno." She isn't oxa'.-lly clear yet what keno is, but sho sa3s she has sworn off taking advico from pious looking traveling men. They call her Little Keno now. 'Mother reading: "Ami evcTy morning and evening Elijah was fed by- tho rav ens, who brought him bread to eat." Lucy, aed four: "And was tho bread buttered, mother?'' o s s Pay ma-tor General Cutter, of tho United Stares navy, says he will be elig-' ible for nlirement 111 August next, when he will be G2 years old, at which age ofiicers of tho" navy must retire. There is no question of waiting for a vacancy on the retired list in the navy, as is the case in the army. Ho and his family will continue to livo in Wash ington. German Feast Eread. When fresh German or compressed yeast can be obtained, a very nice light bread can I c made and bake 1 in about three hours time. For two laro loaves of bread use three pounds of flour, one quart of lukewarm water, ono table spoonful of salt and two ounces of yeast; dissolve thy yeat in the water; add to it enough of the flour to make a batter thick enough to hold the drops from the stirring-spoon when they are shaken from its surface, and set this batter or sponge near the stove to rise; it must bo placed where the hand can be laid without burning, and must bo covered with a folded towel. When it ' is light ami foaming mix in the rest of the flour and salt, and knead it for tive minutes, using enough more Hour to keep it from sticking to the hands or to the bread-board, upon which it is kneaded; form it into two loaves, placo them in separate pans near tho stove, and let them grow double in size; then prick them with a fork and bake them for an hour in a moderate oven, taking care that they do not burn. Th bee is said to be a resident of any clinirite of the globe. It will prosper in hollow trees in Canada, where mercury will freeze in the open air, as well as at the equator.